New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitely ensure by declining specific comment on Thursday, if his government considered industrialist Vijay Mallya an absconder but sought to ensure that every penny due from him would be recovered.
Jaitley said about Mallya who left the country earlier this month that "The facts are very clear: Every government agency will take strong action against him. Banks will go all out to recover every single penny."
Answering a specific question at the India Today conclave on Mallya, who is said to owe Rs.9,000 crore to 17 banks, most of them in the state sector, the finance minister said every agency in India, be it for enforcement or investigation, was on the job regarding the case.